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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Infant Visiting.
There were 4,653 births during the year and 3,848 of these,
or 82.7 per cent., were visited, compared with 81.7 in 1926,
81.1 in 1925, 79.9 in 1924, 77.1 in 1923, and 81.1 in 1922.
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Table XXVII. gives the particulars of the method of
feeding of infants on the occasion of the initial visit and when
revisited. Of 3,848 infants visited for the first time, 3,313
were entirely breast-fed, while 535 were otherwise fed.
On revisiting, 2,114 infants were found to be fed entirely
on the breast, and 2,184 were fed by other methods.

It was found that in 1,420 of the births doctors had been
in attendance, while in 1,465 the services of midwives had
been utilised. 963 infants were born in hospitals and other
institutions.